Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Income Inequality
The Wall Street Journal ran a story today on the Democrats' plans to slow the growing income inequality in this country, and it reads like a prequel to the 2% Solution.
All the problems - healthcare, education, minimum wage - are becoming more pronounced for both sides of the isle but solutions seem unreachable. Hum, many suggested in the book seem ripe for this envinronment. How can we make it happen?
I was particularly struck by this line about health care:
"Finding a politically palatable and affordable way to make health insurance universally available has been impossible, so far. Mr. Bush has pushed tax credits to help more people buy insurance on their own, and dangled rule changes and low-premium, high-deductible policies to encourage small firms to offer coverage. Although some Democrats still drool over proposals for government health insurance for all, others prefer piecemeal approaches."
Is that really the only solutions being floated out there? How about Mitt Romney's plan in Mass.? Is no one proposing anything else from either party?
All the problems - healthcare, education, minimum wage - are becoming more pronounced for both sides of the isle but solutions seem unreachable. Hum, many suggested in the book seem ripe for this envinronment. How can we make it happen?
I was particularly struck by this line about health care:
"Finding a politically palatable and affordable way to make health insurance universally available has been impossible, so far. Mr. Bush has pushed tax credits to help more people buy insurance on their own, and dangled rule changes and low-premium, high-deductible policies to encourage small firms to offer coverage. Although some Democrats still drool over proposals for government health insurance for all, others prefer piecemeal approaches."
Is that really the only solutions being floated out there? How about Mitt Romney's plan in Mass.? Is no one proposing anything else from either party?
# posted by Pcentrist @ 7:08 PM 
